Re: [xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-16 Thread Jens Elkner
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:26:46PM +0200, Florian Manschwetus wrote: Am 16.10.2009 18:07, schrieb Jens Elkner: ... No problems wrt. stability for ~1 year, as long as one gives not more than 1 vcpu to Win DomU (but this is snv_b98 - not sure, whether it is fixed in more recent versions ...).

[xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-15 Thread Brian McKerr
I currently have 2 x ESXi boxes that have VMs stored on a NFS/iSCSI debian lenny linux box. I had purchased a new whitebox server as an intended replacement for the linux box. I had always planned on installing opensolaris on the new hardware with this config; 2 x 640GB mirrored rpool 6 x

Re: [xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-15 Thread Brian McKerr
Question 2: Answer - No. You cant run virtualbox in dom0. When you try and install the package; ## Executing postinstall script. ## VirtualBox cannot run under xVM Dom0! Fatal Error, Aborting installation! pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully -- This message posted

Re: [xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-15 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:35:21AM -0700, Brian McKerr wrote: The plan is to have the VM files synced across to the 'secondary' node via ZFS send/receive so that should one fail I can simply restart the VMs on the second node. I may even be able to spread the VM load across the two nodes and

Re: [xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-15 Thread Rich Reynolds
Brian McKerr wrote: I currently have 2 x ESXi boxes that have VMs stored on a NFS/iSCSI debian lenny linux box. I had purchased a new whitebox server as an intended replacement for the linux box. I had always planned on installing opensolaris on the new hardware with this config; 2 x 640GB

Re: [xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-15 Thread Joseph Mocker
John Levon wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:35:21AM -0700, Brian McKerr wrote: The plan is to have the VM files synced across to the 'secondary' node via ZFS send/receive so that should one fail I can simply restart the VMs on the second node. I may even be able to spread the VM load

Re: [xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-15 Thread Joseph Mocker
Whoops, reread your intended new config, which sounds like you want to do away with a dedicated storage server and just run say a primary xVM hypervisor and standby xVM hypervisor, using snapshot/send/receive to copy the ZVOLs for the virtual disks to the standby node. Is that correct? I

Re: [xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-15 Thread Chris
...sounds like you want to do away with a dedicated storage server and just run say a primary xVM hypervisor and standby xVM hypervisor, using snapshot/send/receive to copy the ZVOLs for the virtual disks to the standby node. Is that correct? I think you still run the risk of an